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<p>Partridge and his ‘Christmas crackers’ in ‘Knowing Me, Knowing Yule’</p>

Flashbacks

Alan Partridge at 30: ‘You can trace a lot back to Noel Edmonds’

To mark the special Alan Partridge episode turning 30, Simon Bland chats to Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front and more about the making of a Christmas classic

<p>‘Life is beautiful, man’: Diego Calva stars in the BBC’s flagship drama ‘The Night Manager’</p>

Interview

Babylon’s Diego Calva on playing a villain in The Night Manager

<p>Jim Howick: ‘I read the scripts with a sense of dread’</p>

Interview

Here We Go’s Jim Howick: ‘I’m a walking indignity’

<p>Stranger danger: Millie Bobby Brown in ‘Stranger Things’</p>

Comment

Netflix has a Stranger Things problem

Reviews

Features

<p>Philippa Dunne (second from left) is back as Anne in the ‘Amandaland’ Christmas Special </p>

‘I actually screamed’: Inside the Amandaland Christmas special

<p>‘Anaconda’, ‘Amandaland’, ‘The Great Peep Show Christmas Bake Off’ and ‘The Night Manager’ lead our Christmas TV and film picks</p>

What to watch over Christmas and new year, from Amandaland to Anaconda

<p>Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly have hosted their final Strictly live show</p>

How on earth can you replace a duo like Strictly’s Tess and Claudia?

<p>David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher (Ian West/PA)</p>

It’s baffling that David Walliams’s publishing deal lasted this long

Interviews

<p>Will Sharpe as Mozart in the new ‘Amadeus’ adaptation</p>

Interview

How Amadeus turns a rumour about Mozart and Salieri into unmissable TV

<p>Compston has starred in ‘Line of Duty’ since 2012</p>

Interview

Martin Compston on Line of Duty, Revenge Club and life in Las Vegas

<p>Russell Tovey is starring in ‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’</p>

Interview

Russell Tovey: ‘We all have a responsibility to choose empathy’

<p>Shirley Henderson: ‘Who said life was going to be easy? We could all just walk away, we could just say, ‘OK, I’m fed up.’ But people don’t – we cling on. You need the battles in life’</p>

Interview

Shirley Henderson on Potter, Bridget Jones and new drama Summerwater

News

Adam Peaty changes name after wedding to Holly Ramsay amid family rift

Ricky Gervais speaks out after backlash ahead of new Netflix special

<p>'Stranger Things' fans were left confused about outcome of Nancy and Jonathan scene</p>

Stranger Things creators confirm characters’ fate after fan debate

<p>Claudia Winkleman will return on January 1 with a new series of The Traitors (Ian West/PA)</p>

Claudia Winkleman teases ‘truly extraordinary’ The Traitors twists

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